On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 09:15:05PM -0700, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > Charles Curley wrote: > >I tried burning the installation CD-ROM, and then the NFS > >installation. > > > >I was utterly croggled that the boot code did not pick up my > >NIC. Fedora Core and Red Hat have never failed to pick it up. At least > >SuSE had a manual mode, but you actually have to know what kind of NIC > >you have. :-) > > The normal mode (install from CD/DVD) would have picked up your NIC card > fine. The FTP/HTTP/NFS installs are all considered manual mode > installation, and the manual mode install leaves it all up to you to > figure out.
Wonderful. So there are two sets of code in there, one for "normal" mode, and the other for "manual" mode. That's rather inelegant. They also have a different definition of "normal" than I do: I do all my installations across the network. It's faster, especially if you take into account time spent burning CD-ROMs. Thanks for the explanation. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
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